Sistani Brigade

The Sistani Brigade is an Iraqi Shia volunteer brigade that was formed to fight against the Islamic State during the Iraqi Civil War. The brigade had fighters of all ages, having troops as young as their early teens (such as one fifteen-year-old fighter) and as old as their sixties and seventies. The brigade was on the front lines of the war against IS at Fallujah and Ramadi in 2015-2016, and the brigade would assist the Iraqi Army during the fight against IS.